Al-Qaeda directed attacks
Members of al-Qaedaâs branch in Yemen say the group directed the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a member of Al-Qaedaâs Yemen branch said the group directed the attack against Frnch magazine Charlie Hebdo to avenge blasphemies against the Prophet Mohammed.
The member has provided a statement to The Associated Press in English saying âthe leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefullyâ.
The attack was in line with warnings from the late al-Qaeda leaderOsama bin Laden to the West about âthe consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Muslim sanctitiesâ.
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AP
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